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[Byakugan01]

So, I got to thinking, how can children be made more useful? Then it hit me. Instead of waiting for them to grow up and become useful, sit them down at a desk, give them a slate, and start making use of that teaching skill! Basically, the idea is that you would be able to assign teachers to classrooms, where children would go, and teach them skills before they become fully functional fortress members. This way, not every child has to become a legendary crafter when they get taken by a mood, and they can be immediately useful and productive upon maturity. Heck, even a master/apprentice system would be useful in this regard (with the child performing hauling and other such tasks for their master in exchange for learning the trade). For the military, a knight/squire sort of system would serve the same purpose. If any of the races are going to educate their kids, I'd imagine it would be the dwarves.

[weenog]

I like the idea, though this seems a little more dwarven to me.

[Deboche]

better than classrooms would be to have children work side by side with the dwarves and be extremely slow and crappy but learn their skill as they do it. and of course assign materials to children specifically lest they use up all your good shale